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in the 'haunts and habitats' of ferns

[an excerpt]

A GUIDETO THE NAMES, HAUNTS, AND HABITS OFOUR COMMON FERNS

ByFrances Theodora ParsonsAuthor of "How to Know the Wild Flowers,""According to Season," etc.

Illustrated byMarion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith

NEW YORKCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS1915

"To me the greatest charm the ferns possess is that of their surroundings. No other plants know so well how to choose their haunts. If you wish to know the ferns you must follow them to Nature's most sacred retreats. In remote, tangled swamps, overhanging the swift, noiseless brook in the heart of the forest, close to the rush of the foaming waterfall, in the depths of some dark ravine, or perhaps high up on mountain-ledges, where the air is purer and the world wider and life more beautiful than we had fancied, these wild, graceful things are most at home."